Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Tracy, Brian

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Davis, William B.

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

Heraclitus

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

30.

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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric