Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Ruskin, John

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Christina Baldwin

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Rogers, Will

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Lynn Hall

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Confucius

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Depree, Max

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Virgil

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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