Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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

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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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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Spander, Art

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

Lynn Hall

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert