Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

10.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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

21.

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

Spander, Art

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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 all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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