Motivational Quotes

Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Murdock, Mike

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Tilden, Bill

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

George, David Lloyd

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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.