Motivational Quotes

Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Churchill, Winston

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ruskin, John

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

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

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Gerhart, Susan

25.

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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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?

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

31.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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

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

Bryant, William C.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ramsay Clark

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

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon