Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Draper, John W.

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

Paul, Jean

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Ramsay Clark

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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 cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman