Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bastos, Augusto Roa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A Course In Miracles

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Bellin, Gita

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Waitley, Denis

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

19.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Shaw, P.K.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Porter, Irene

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Eliot, George

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

Socrates

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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 not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius