Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mcgovern, William

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

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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

Socrates

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

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Brown, Les

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Spander, Art

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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