Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Paul, Jean

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Andy Warhol

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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.