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

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Heraclitus

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

Murdock, Mike

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Ruskin, John

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Shaw, P.K.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Tracy, Brian

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bennett, Arnold

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid