Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paul, Jean

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Jackson, Jesse

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Confucius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George, David Lloyd

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bellin, Gita

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Churchill, Winston

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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