Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Nelson Mandela

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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