Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Udall, Mo

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Bible

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha