Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Paz, Octavio

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

15.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

24.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hooker, Richard

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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