Motivational Quotes

Change

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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.

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

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Udall, Mo

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Riley, Pat

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Ramsay Clark

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Christina Baldwin

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Petworth, John

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim