Motivational Quotes

Change

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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

10.

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

11.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

18.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Paz, Octavio

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

23.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

24.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

25.

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

26.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

27.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

30.

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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.

34.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

38.

Change alone is unchanging.

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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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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