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

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

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Lynn Hall

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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 need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Rohn, Jim

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Spander, Art

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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