Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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

Heraclitus

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

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Depree, Max

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Davis, William B.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Susan Rice

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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.