Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Andy Warhol

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Christina Baldwin

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Mohammed

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Petworth, John

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.