Motivational Quotes

Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Paul, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

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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 we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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 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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.