Motivational Quotes

Change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

- Sheehy, Gail

Best Quotes about Change

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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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 the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Murdock, Mike

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

24.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

25.

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

26.

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

Jackson, Jesse

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

30.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Proust, Marcel

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Rogers, Will

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

38.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bellin, Gita