Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

12.

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

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shelton, Richard

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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.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

21.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Freeman, James Dillet

24.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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

Draper, John W.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

35.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Porter, Irene

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

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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

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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

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis