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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Spander, Art

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Ramsay Clark

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.