Motivational Quotes

Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

- Gilbertson, Joan

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pickens, T. Boone

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Tracy, Brian

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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Udall, Mo

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert 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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dewar, Jeff

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Virgil

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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.