Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

A Course In Miracles

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoffer, Eric

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

10.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

11.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

12.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

13.

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

Menander of Athens

14.

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

15.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

18.

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

20.

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

Harrison Ford

21.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Virgil

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

28.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

29.

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.

30.

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

Davis, William B.

31.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Tracy, Brian

36.

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

Brown, Les

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proust, Marcel

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

48.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon