Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Ruskin, John

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Virgil

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese