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

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

Depree, Max

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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.

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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

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Carol Burnett

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Lynn Hall

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