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

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Porter, Irene

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

12.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

13.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

14.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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.

Jackson, Jesse

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

20.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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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

34.

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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

40.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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