Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Murdock, Mike

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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

10.

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

Spander, Art

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

30.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

31.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Heraclitus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

41.

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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

43.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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