Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Virgil

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

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Riley, Pat

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Depree, Max

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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.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Paul, Jean

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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.

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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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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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 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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Shelton, Richard

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Porter, Irene

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Murdock, Mike

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Tracy, Brian

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.