Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Davis, William B.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

11.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

12.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

13.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Heraclitus

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.