Motivational Quotes

Change

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Franklin, Benjamin

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herford, Oliver

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Brown, Les

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

Ruskin, John

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

11.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Tilden, Bill

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Shelton, Richard

24.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Andy Warhol

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

Buffett, Warren

31.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Proust, Marcel

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Ramsay Clark

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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