Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

A Course In Miracles

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Waitley, Denis

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Eliot, George

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

Virgil

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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?

32.

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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 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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Lynn Hall

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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