Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

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

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

Udall, Mo

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Dean, Jimmy

11.

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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

14.

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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Kearney

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Harrison Ford

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Confucius

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas