Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Bible

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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.

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

Andy Warhol

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Confucius

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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

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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

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

Heraclitus

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Murdock, Mike

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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.

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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?

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

Virgil

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

40.

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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.