Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Tracy, Brian

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Petworth, John

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Udall, Mo

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

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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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

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel