Motivational Quotes

Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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Best Quotes about Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Spander, Art

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Tilden, Bill

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Petworth, John

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Depree, Max

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

Bryant, William C.