Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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.

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

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Proust, Marcel

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Tilden, Bill

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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.

20.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Eliot, George

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Porter, Irene

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

25.

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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Menander of Athens

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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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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.

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Ward, William A.

39.

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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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 made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus