Motivational Quotes

Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Spander, Art

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Waitley, Denis

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Bennett, Arnold

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Harrison Ford

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

Ramsay Clark

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

41.

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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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 is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic