Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Kempis, Thomas

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Heraclitus

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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

22.

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

Spander, Art

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Angelou, Maya

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Lynn Hall

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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