Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Petworth, John

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Heraclitus

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Andy Warhol

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

Confucius

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Porter, Irene

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

Real Live Preacher

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Tilden, Bill

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von