Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

10.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

11.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Waitley, Denis

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Christina Baldwin

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

30.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

33.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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.

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius