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

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Spander, Art

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bacon, Francis

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Petworth, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Einstein, Albert

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo