Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Depree, Max

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

11.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Klee, Paul

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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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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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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