Motivational Quotes

Change

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Ward, William A.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

11.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Andy Warhol

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Bennett, Arnold

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spander, Art

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Virgil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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