Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kettering, Charles F.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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.

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

Paul, Jean

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Spander, Art

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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 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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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

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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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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