Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Confucius

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

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Burke, Edmund

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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 is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.