Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

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

Depree, Max

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

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Pope, Alexander

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

11.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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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

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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.

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Harrison Ford

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

31.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

32.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

33.

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

George, David Lloyd

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Felltham, Owen

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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There is nothing permanent except change.