Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Spander, Art

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

Christina Baldwin

12.

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

13.

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

Depree, Max

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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

20.

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

21.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

35.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

36.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

38.

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

Brown, Les

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Carol Burnett

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

George, David Lloyd

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

46.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

48.

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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo