Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

A Course In Miracles

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.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

15.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

17.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

18.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

19.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

20.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

21.

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

Murdock, Mike

22.

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.

23.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

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

Dean, Jimmy

26.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

28.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mohammed

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

38.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

39.

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

Brown, Les

40.

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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

45.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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 must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs