Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Angelou, Maya

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

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

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

12.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Carol Burnett

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Constant change is here to stay.

24.

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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Andy Warhol

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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