Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Churchill, Winston

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gerhart, Susan

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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 made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Heraclitus

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Pope, Alexander