Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

Eliot, George

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bryant, William C.

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Felltham, Owen

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Petworth, John

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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