Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Ruskin, John

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

George, David Lloyd

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

10.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bible

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Christina Baldwin

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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 struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

33.

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

Tilden, Bill

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Spander, Art

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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.