Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Udall, Mo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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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

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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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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Spander, Art

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

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

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed