Motivational Quotes

Change

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pope, Alexander

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Draper, John W.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

11.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

13.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Paul, Jean

16.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

18.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

19.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Menander of Athens

25.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

26.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

27.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

31.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

32.

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

34.

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

Virgil

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

37.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

38.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

39.

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

Felltham, Owen

40.

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

Carol Burnett

41.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

42.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

43.

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

Heraclitus

44.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

48.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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