Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bennett, Arnold

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

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

Brown, Les

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

12.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

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

26.

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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Bailey, Pearl

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Kearney

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides