Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hoffer, Eric

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Angelou, Maya

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark