Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Proust, Marcel

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ramsay Clark

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.

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

Petworth, John

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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Paul, Jean

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Lynn Hall

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Astor, Lady Nancy