Motivational Quotes

Change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

- Sheehy, Gail

Best Quotes about Change

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Nelson Mandela

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

15.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

21.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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 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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

32.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

35.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Waitley, Denis

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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