Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Hoffer, Eric

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Harrison Ford

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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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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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carol Burnett

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Porter, Irene

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Tracy, Brian

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