Motivational Quotes

Change

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Menander of Athens

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Lynn Hall

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Porter, Irene

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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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