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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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

Brown, Les

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

10.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proust, Marcel

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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 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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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

A Course In Miracles

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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

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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