Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Eliot, George

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Udall, Mo

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Waitley, Denis

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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