Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Heraclitus

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Tracy, Brian

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Gerhart, Susan

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Spander, Art

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.