Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Menander of Athens

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

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

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.

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Brown, Les

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Depree, Max

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Confucius

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

Proust, Marcel

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rogers, Will

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change, we do.