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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Murdock, Mike

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Klee, Paul

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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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

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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I Ching

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna