Motivational Quotes

Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Petworth, John

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Waitley, Denis

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George, David Lloyd

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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