Motivational Quotes

Change

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.