Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Naisbitt, John

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Spencer, Herbert

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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.

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

Petworth, John

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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 do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Riley, Pat

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Depree, Max

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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.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Confucius

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lynn Hall

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Virgil