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

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

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

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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