Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Real Live Preacher

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Confucius

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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.