Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Burke, Edmund

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Porter, Irene

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?

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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.

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

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

18.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Brown, Les

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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 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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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 way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Hooker, Richard

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah