Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

10.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

11.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

13.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

21.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Einstein, Albert

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

29.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Klee, Paul

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Bennett, Arnold

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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.

39.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Waitley, Denis

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Bible

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh