Motivational Quotes

Change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

- Sheehy, Gail

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Ramsay Clark

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Carol Burnett

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

13.

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

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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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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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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

19.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

26.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Petworth, John

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

30.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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

Heraclitus

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

41.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

44.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Kempis, Thomas