Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Felltham, Owen

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

10.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

12.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

19.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Spander, Art

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Socrates

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Mcgovern, William

40.

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

Petworth, John

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.