Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Brown, Les

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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?

37.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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.