Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Porter, Irene

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Confucius

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Bible

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Virgil

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