Motivational Quotes

Change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Brown, Les

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Porter, Irene

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Heraclitus

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

18.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Ruskin, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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