Motivational Quotes

Change

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

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

Herford, Oliver

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Eliot, George

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

Heraclitus

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Paul, Jean

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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.

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Spander, Art

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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