Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bennett, Arnold

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Draper, John W.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gerhart, Susan

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Davis, William B.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Kearney

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Petworth, John

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

Beauvoir, Simone De