Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gerhart, Susan

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Ruskin, John

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Ramsay Clark

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.