Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spander, Art

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

11.

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

Harrison Ford

12.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

13.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Confucius

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Bennett, Arnold

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

28.

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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

30.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dewar, Jeff

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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.