Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Petworth, John

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

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.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Depree, Max

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Paz, Octavio

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Paul, Jean

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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust