Motivational Quotes

Change

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Ward, William A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Lynn Hall

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Confucius

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe