Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tracy, Brian

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.

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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