Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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