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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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.

28.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.

33.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.