Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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 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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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 way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

21.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Porter, Irene

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bible

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Branden, Nathaniel