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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Ramsay Clark

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

10.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

11.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

17.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

18.

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

Christina Baldwin

19.

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

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Susan Rice

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

28.

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

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

34.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

39.

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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

43.

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

Menander of Athens

44.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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