Motivational Quotes

Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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.

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

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

30.

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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Menander of Athens

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Tilden, Bill

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Things do not change; we change.