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

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Peters, Thomas J.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Rohn, Jim

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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.

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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

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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

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Brown, Les

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

46.

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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser