Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dewar, Jeff

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

10.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

11.

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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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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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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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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

17.

Constant change is here to stay.

18.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

20.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Eliot, George

28.

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.

29.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

37.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Christina Baldwin

42.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

43.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

44.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Ruskin, John

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius