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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn