Motivational Quotes

Change

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Shelton, Richard

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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

Riley, Pat

10.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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.

12.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Christina Baldwin

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

16.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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.

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

21.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Virgil

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

37.

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

Brown, Les

38.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.