Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

Brown, Les

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Porter, Irene

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.