Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Real Live Preacher

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Constant change is here to stay.

13.

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

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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

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Ruskin, John

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

21.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Klee, Paul

26.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

27.

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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

34.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Andy Warhol

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Depree, Max

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

Hooker, Richard

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Christina Baldwin

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.