Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

10.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

11.

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

Carol Burnett

12.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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?

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Virgil

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

36.

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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

41.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

44.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus