Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Eliot, George

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Lynn Hall

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Confucius

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Klee, Paul

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Davis, William B.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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