Motivational Quotes

Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Brown, Les

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Spander, Art

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We need to change so we can remain the same.