Motivational Quotes

Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Lynn Hall

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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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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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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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas