Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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.

10.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

13.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

14.

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

Virgil

15.

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

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

18.

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

Kearney

19.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

20.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

21.

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

Harrison Ford

23.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Klee, Paul

25.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Tilden, Bill

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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

28.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

33.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

35.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

36.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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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

40.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.