Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Udall, Mo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

13.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Robbins, Anthony

15.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

23.

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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Heraclitus

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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