Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Hoffer, Eric

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Porter, Irene

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

10.

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

Shaw, P.K.

11.

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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

15.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

George, David Lloyd

20.

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.

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

Susan Rice

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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

30.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Glasgow, Ellen

33.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

34.

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?

35.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Christina Baldwin

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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