Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Davis, William B.

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.

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

Constant change is here to stay.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Lynn Hall

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

11.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Christina Baldwin

13.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

14.

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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

19.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Paul, Jean

25.

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

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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

29.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

32.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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

34.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

35.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

38.

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

Porter, Irene

39.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

40.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

41.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese