Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Menander of Athens

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Brown, Les

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

Udall, Mo

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Lynn Hall

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Depree, Max

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

George, David Lloyd

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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