Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Paul, Jean

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

23.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Socrates

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Carol Burnett

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Dante Alighieri

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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 is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Porter, Irene

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Harrison Ford

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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