Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Carol Burnett

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

10.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

11.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

12.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

16.

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

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

19.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

20.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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.

22.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

24.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

25.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Nelson Mandela

28.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

29.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

30.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

32.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

38.

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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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

43.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

45.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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.