Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sinetar, Marsha

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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

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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spander, Art

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma