Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Brown, Les

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bennett, Arnold

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Ruskin, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Shaw, P.K.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene