Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Christina Baldwin

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Paul, Jean

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bible

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

George, David Lloyd

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.