Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bellin, Gita

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Depree, Max

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Davis, William B.

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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

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau