Motivational Quotes

Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gerhart, Susan

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Harrison Ford

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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