Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Change

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Susan Rice

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

Paul, Jean

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

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

12.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

13.

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

Brown, Les

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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.

15.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

16.

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?

17.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

18.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

19.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

21.

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.

22.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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

24.

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

Naisbitt, John

25.

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

Spander, Art

26.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

30.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

31.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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

33.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

34.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

35.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

40.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

41.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

42.

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

Draper, John W.

43.

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

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Tracy, Brian

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.