Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

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

Udall, Mo

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paul, Jean

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Bryant, William C.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Depree, Max

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

Proust, Marcel

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

25.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Davis, William B.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Gerhart, Susan