Motivational Quotes

Change

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Shelton, Richard

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Tracy, Brian

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Susan Rice

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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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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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

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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 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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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.