Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Murdock, Mike

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carol Burnett

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Davis, William B.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Porter, Irene

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

A Course In Miracles