Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Davis, William B.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Dewar, Jeff

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Menander of Athens

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Paul, Jean

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.