Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Spander, Art

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Rogers, Will

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, 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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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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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

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Proust, Marcel

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Klee, Paul

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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