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

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

Bennett, Arnold

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

10.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

11.

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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

17.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

19.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Petworth, John

24.

Constant change is here to stay.

25.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

27.

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

Harrison Ford

28.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

32.

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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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

34.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Davis, William B.

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

Udall, Mo

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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