Motivational Quotes

Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Branden, Nathaniel

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Eliot, George

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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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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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.

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

Udall, Mo

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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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.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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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 is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Paul, Jean

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Andy Warhol

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.