Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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?

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

10.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

12.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

18.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

George, David Lloyd

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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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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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Hooker, Richard

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.