Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lynn Hall

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Bible

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius