Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Confucius

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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 seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Felltham, Owen

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Menander of Athens

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Lynn Hall

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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

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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.