Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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 meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Walesa, Lech

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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.