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

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Murdock, Mike

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Petworth, John

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

Shaw, P.K.

12.

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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Spander, Art

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Kearney

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proust, Marcel

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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