Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Riley, Pat

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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