Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Ramsay Clark

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bible

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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