Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Mohammed

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Socrates

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

16.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Udall, Mo

18.

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

20.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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.

25.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

28.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Tilden, Bill

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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

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis