Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Riley, Pat

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Paul, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Buffett, Warren

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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 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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Confucius

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.