Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

Proust, Marcel

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

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

Ward, William A.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Constant change is here to stay.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bryson, Lyman L.