Motivational Quotes

Change

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Petworth, John

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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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.

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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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Confucius

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change alone is unchanging.

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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Virgil