Motivational Quotes

Change

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Mcgovern, William

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.

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

Shelton, Richard

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Depree, Max

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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 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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Heraclitus

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Waitley, Denis

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel