Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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

19.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Heraclitus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Bennett, Arnold

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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