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

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Brown, Les

10.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

11.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

12.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

13.

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.

14.

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

Ramsay Clark

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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

A Course In Miracles

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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Shelton, Richard

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

34.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

39.

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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

45.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Heraclitus