Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schoeder, Caroline

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

10.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Davis, William B.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

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

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Waitley, Denis

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

30.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

31.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Buffett, Warren

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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