Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Waitley, Denis

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Constant change is here to stay.

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice