Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bible

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

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

Eliot, George

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

10.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Confucius

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

14.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

15.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

16.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Butterworth, Eric

19.

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

20.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Spander, Art

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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.