Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Change

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Lynn Hall

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Udall, Mo

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ruskin, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Petworth, John

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

Alther, Lisa

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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