Motivational Quotes

Change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

- Sheehy, Gail

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Dewar, Jeff

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Confucius

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

10.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

12.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

13.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Felltham, Owen

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Andy Warhol

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

34.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

35.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Lynn Hall

38.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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 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