Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, William B.

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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

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Waitley, Denis

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Lynn Hall