Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

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.

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

10.

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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

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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?

17.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

18.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

19.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Confucius

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.