Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lynn Hall

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

12.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Paul, Jean

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.