Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Paul, Jean

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Constant change is here to stay.

45.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

47.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Spander, Art

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic