Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Watts, Alan W.

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.

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

Confucius

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Spander, Art

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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?

21.

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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Depree, Max

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Mcgovern, William

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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People can cry much easier than they can change.