Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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

Menander of Athens

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Hooker, Richard

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Harrison Ford

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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