Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Tracy, Brian

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Susan Rice

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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