Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Menander of Athens

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

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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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Carol Burnett

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Shelton, Richard

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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