Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Paz, Octavio

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

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

10.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

12.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

13.

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

Rogers, Will

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

16.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

17.

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

18.

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

Eliot, George

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

A Course In Miracles

20.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

24.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

28.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

29.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

31.

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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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

33.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

34.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

35.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

37.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

40.

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

41.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Heraclitus

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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