Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Churchill, Winston

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bryant, William C.

11.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

19.

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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Proust, Marcel

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

27.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

30.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Bailey, Pearl

32.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

33.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

34.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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 not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington