Motivational Quotes

Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Menander of Athens

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.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

10.

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

Lynn Hall

11.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Felltham, Owen

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

35.

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

36.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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