Motivational Quotes

Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

- Gilbertson, Joan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Tilden, Bill

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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.

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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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

14.

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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

39.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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.