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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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.

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Kempis, Thomas

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