Motivational Quotes

Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bellin, Gita

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

Constant change is here to stay.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Jackson, Jesse

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Petworth, John

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Udall, Mo

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

Heraclitus

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

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Murdock, Mike

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten