Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

- Hunt, Trinidad

Best Quotes about Change

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

Jackson, Jesse

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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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

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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 must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

33.

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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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