Motivational Quotes

Change

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Heraclitus

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

50.

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