Motivational Quotes

Change

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Udall, Mo

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Riley, Pat

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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