Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

10.

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

Udall, Mo

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

12.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Butterworth, Eric

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Walesa, Lech

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Virgil

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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

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

Spander, Art

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

38.

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

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.