Motivational Quotes

Change

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Lee, Bruce

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Rogers, Will

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Porter, Irene

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proust, Marcel

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Gerhart, Susan

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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

Depree, Max

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Socrates

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo