Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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?

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lynn Hall

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Heraclitus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Confucius

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Brown, Les

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Porter, Irene

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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.

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Paul, Jean