Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Watts, Alan W.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Real Live Preacher

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Herford, Oliver

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Mohammed

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

Eliot, George

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Murdock, Mike