Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Virgil

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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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 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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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

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

Brown, Les

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.