Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hoffer, Eric

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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 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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Porter, Irene

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Murdock, Mike

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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

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

Confucius

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

Virgil

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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