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

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

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.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Real Live Preacher

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Hooker, Richard

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bacon, Francis

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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.

Alther, Lisa

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Ruskin, John

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Proust, Marcel

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