Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Change

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, P.K.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Petworth, John

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

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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 difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Virgil

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

Spander, Art

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Harrison Ford

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Kettering, Charles F.