Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Petworth, John

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bennett, Arnold

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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.

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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dante Alighieri

26.

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Churchill, Winston

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Depree, Max

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

49.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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