Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Eliot, George

10.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

11.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

14.

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

Petworth, John

15.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Burke, Edmund

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

19.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

20.

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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

25.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Ruskin, John

27.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

28.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

29.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Buffett, Warren

34.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

40.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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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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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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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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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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