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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Depree, Max

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Bailey, Pearl

Johnson, Samuel

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

10.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

11.

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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

26.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

33.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

35.

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

Burke, Edmund

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

44.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman