Motivational Quotes

Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Hooker, Richard

11.

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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Tilden, Bill

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Ruskin, John

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

29.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Burke, Edmund

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Mohammed

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

39.

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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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Constant change is here to stay.

48.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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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