Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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 make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Lynn Hall

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Proust, Marcel

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

George, David Lloyd