Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Depree, Max

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Waitley, Denis

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bellin, Gita

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh