Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Andy Warhol

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Burke, Edmund

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.