Motivational Quotes

Change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Susan Rice

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Bible

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Virgil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Davis, William B.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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 only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

A Course In Miracles

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Murdock, Mike