Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ruskin, John

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bible

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

10.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

11.

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

12.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

13.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

15.

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

Ward, William A.

16.

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

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

Bellin, Gita

18.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

19.

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

20.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

25.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

26.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

27.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

28.

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

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

31.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

32.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

37.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

38.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

41.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

44.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

45.

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Petworth, John