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

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Constant change is here to stay.

16.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Virgil

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

Menander of Athens

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Brown, Les

30.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

31.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

34.

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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

36.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

43.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Klee, Paul

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan