Motivational Quotes

Change

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

13.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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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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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Spander, Art

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Confucius

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

Mcgovern, William

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

36.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Depree, Max

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Kearney

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.