Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Brown, Les

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Murdock, Mike

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

10.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Watts, Alan W.

19.

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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Carol Burnett

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Mcgovern, William

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

George, David Lloyd

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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 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.

37.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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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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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.

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

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Naisbitt, John