Motivational Quotes

Change

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Butterworth, Eric

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

11.

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

Klee, Paul

12.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

13.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

14.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Tilden, Bill

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

21.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bible

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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

A Course In Miracles

28.

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

29.

Constant change is here to stay.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

33.

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

Udall, Mo

34.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

35.

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

Walesa, Lech

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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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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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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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.