Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 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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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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

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

Confucius

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Harrison Ford

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

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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

Bible

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Virgil

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