Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

10.

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

Jackson, Jesse

11.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

12.

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

Ward, William A.

14.

Constant change is here to stay.

15.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

16.

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

Dean, Jimmy

17.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

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

19.

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

Menander of Athens

20.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

Harrison Ford

23.

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

Nelson Mandela

24.

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

Lynn Hall

25.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

26.

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

27.

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

George, David Lloyd

28.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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

31.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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

Tracy, Brian

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

42.

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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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.