Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Heraclitus

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Paz, Octavio

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

10.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

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

12.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

13.

Constant change is here to stay.

14.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Confucius

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

30.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Virgil

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

38.

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

Mohammed

39.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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.

42.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Petworth, John

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lynn Hall

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

Shaw, P.K.