Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Proust, Marcel

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Davis, William B.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Depree, Max

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Udall, Mo

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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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

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson