Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Bible

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Davis, William B.

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

Klee, Paul

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

13.

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

Depree, Max

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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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.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

18.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

23.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

24.

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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

27.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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.

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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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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

34.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

40.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

41.

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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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