Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

33.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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 do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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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 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.

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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

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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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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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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 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