Motivational Quotes

Change

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

- Braude, Jacob M.

Best Quotes about Change

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Shelton, Richard

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

22.

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

Udall, Mo

23.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Menander of Athens

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Waitley, Denis

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.