Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ward, William A.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce