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

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

Confucius

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Paul, Jean

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

10.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

11.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

18.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

22.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Spander, Art

25.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Waitley, Denis

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Murdock, Mike

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Rogers, Will

42.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

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

Menander of Athens

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Burke, Edmund