Motivational Quotes

Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

12.

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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

24.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Heraclitus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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.

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Virgil

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce