Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ruskin, John

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.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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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 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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Heraclitus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Brown, Les

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.