Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ramsay Clark

11.

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

13.

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

Susan Rice

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

18.

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

Heraclitus

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

27.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

32.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

33.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Mcgovern, William

40.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bennett, Arnold

42.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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

44.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German