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

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

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Porter, Irene

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.