Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Confucius

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Christina Baldwin

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Tracy, Brian

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

12.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Murdock, Mike

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

42.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene