Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Udall, Mo

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Rogers, Will

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Harrison Ford

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Ruskin, John

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Porter, Irene

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Freeman, James Dillet