Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hooker, Richard

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

10.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Paul, Jean

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

27.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Porter, Irene

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.