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

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Paul, Jean

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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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 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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Draper, John W.

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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