Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Burke, Edmund

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

10.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

11.

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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

13.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

15.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

17.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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

20.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

31.

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 seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

33.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

34.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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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 don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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