Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

12.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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

Depree, Max

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Lynn Hall

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

George, David Lloyd

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Porter, Irene

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.