Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Angelou, Maya

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma