Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Davis, William B.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Socrates

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

Eliot, George

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

George, David Lloyd

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford