Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

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

Depree, Max

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Petworth, John

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

Ramsay Clark

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Eliot, George

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Confucius

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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