Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ward, William A.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Constant change is here to stay.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Virgil

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Heraclitus

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Pope, Alexander

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

37.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.