Motivational Quotes

Change

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Lynn Hall

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

Kearney

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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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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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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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis