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

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

10.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

11.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

18.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

25.

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

Petworth, John

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Depree, Max

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

37.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.