Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Porter, Irene

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

A Course In Miracles

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Sinetar, Marsha