Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.