Motivational Quotes

Change

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

13.

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Branden, Nathaniel

20.

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

Lynn Hall

21.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

25.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

27.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

32.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

34.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

35.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

36.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Riley, Pat

38.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

39.

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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

44.

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

Udall, Mo

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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