Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Lynn Hall

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.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Tilden, Bill

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Ramsay Clark

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.