Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Mcgovern, William

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Waitley, Denis

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Gerhart, Susan

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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