Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Lynn Hall

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Waitley, Denis

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Draper, John W.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petworth, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Harrison Ford

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

35.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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