Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ward, William A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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

Mohammed

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

27.

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

Brown, Les

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

36.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Virgil

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles