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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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?

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Naisbitt, John

10.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

11.

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

12.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

13.

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.

14.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

17.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

27.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Riley, Pat

42.

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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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

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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

45.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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.