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

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

Davis, William B.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Bellin, Gita

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Felltham, Owen

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rogers, Will

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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