Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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 are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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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?

25.

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

Udall, Mo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ruskin, John

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

43.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma