Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Udall, Mo

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

Burke, Edmund

10.

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

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

14.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hooker, Richard

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

25.

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

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Heraclitus

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

40.

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

Harrison Ford

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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Kempis, Thomas

49.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.