Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Dewar, Jeff

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Brown, Les

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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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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.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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