Top 238 Change Quotes

Everything worth having usually starts with change. These quotes are about growth and transformation, the discomfort of becoming, and the truth that staying the same is rarely as safe as it feels.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.
William Bridges
William Bridges
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Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.
Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman
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It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.
George Polya
George Polya
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You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel
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A vision is not just a picture of what could be: it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
Rosalind Moss Kanter
Rosalind Moss Kanter
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When you see a good move, look for a better one.
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker
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You make me want to be a better man.
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
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There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow again.
Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun
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The secret to editing your work is simple; you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
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It's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
Jann Cleary
Jann Cleary
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I'm a work in progress.
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
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Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
Erinath Balmeron
Erinath Balmeron
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The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.
Unknown
Unknown
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I read; I travel; I become.
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
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Treat me good, I'll treat you better, treat me bad and I'll treat you worse.
Sonny Barger
Sonny Barger
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Zen pretty much comes down to three things - everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon
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If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
Hesiod
Hesiod
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Become acquainted with your soul, care for it, for it will outlast all you have.
Anna Faversham
Anna Faversham
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There's always room for improvement.
Joey Logano
Joey Logano
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Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
James Arthur Ray
James Arthur Ray
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth
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Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
Neil Stephenson
Neil Stephenson
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey
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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Developers, developers, developers, developers.
Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding
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Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.
Dan B. Allender
Dan B. Allender
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No competition, no progress.
Bela Karolyi
Bela Karolyi
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Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult.
Ferdinand Porsche
Ferdinand Porsche
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We all do better, when we all do better.
Paul Wellstone
Paul Wellstone
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There is no better designer than nature.
Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen
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The only constant in the technology industry is change.
Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff
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Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.
Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb
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Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.
Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams
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It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.
John Tukey
John Tukey
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You either evolve or dissolve.
Usher
Usher
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Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
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Growth means change and change involves risk. stepping from the known to the unknown.
George Shinn
George Shinn
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Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.
Josh Waitzkin
Josh Waitzkin
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To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Senjan
Senjan
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Assessment precedes improvement.
Rajen Jani
Rajen Jani
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Getting old is like climbing a mountain, you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
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All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.
Derrick Rose
Derrick Rose
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw.
Nancy Duarte
Nancy Duarte
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
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The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.
Jim Cymbala
Jim Cymbala
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