Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Butterworth, Eric

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

21.

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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

28.

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 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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

33.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Virgil

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

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

43.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De