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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

George, David Lloyd

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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

Petworth, John

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rohn, Jim

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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.