Motivational Quotes

Change

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Almanac, Mary S.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Paul, Jean

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

Heraclitus

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Kearney

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter