Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Udall, Mo

Best Quotes about Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Ruskin, John

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

Felltham, Owen

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Brown, Les

10.

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.

11.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

12.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

13.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

15.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

16.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

21.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

22.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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

25.

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

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

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

Mcgovern, William

29.

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

Udall, Mo

30.

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

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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

32.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

33.

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

34.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

35.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mohammed

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

Lynn Hall

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

Confucius

48.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse