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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Lee, Bruce

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Kempis, Thomas

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Andy Warhol

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Davis, William B.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Ruskin, John

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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?

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Christina Baldwin

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo