Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Jackson, Jesse

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Lynn Hall

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

Ruskin, John

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

11.

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

Dewar, Jeff

12.

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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

22.

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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

29.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Depree, Max

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Virgil

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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

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

Mcgovern, William

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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