Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Pope, Alexander

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ward, William A.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Petworth, John

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Constant change is here to stay.

34.

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Confucius

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.