Motivational Quotes

Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Paul, Jean

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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?

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Spander, Art

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Churchill, Winston

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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