Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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.

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?

10.

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

Christina Baldwin

11.

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

12.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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.

43.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

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

Proust, Marcel