Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

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

Davis, William B.

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

10.

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

11.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Shelton, Richard

22.

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

Petworth, John

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

Spander, Art

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

31.

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

Murdock, Mike

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

39.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Porter, Irene

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri