Motivational Quotes

Change

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Udall, Mo

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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.

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Lee, Bruce

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.