Motivational Quotes

Change

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bennett, Arnold

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

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

Davis, William B.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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 is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Rohn, Jim

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Confucius

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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