Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

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

Udall, Mo

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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

George, David Lloyd

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bennett, Arnold

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Harrison Ford

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

Porter, Irene

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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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 don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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