Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Murdock, Mike

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Klee, Paul

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gerhart, Susan

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Davis, William B.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Spencer, Herbert

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Confucius

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen