Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Spander, Art

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Constant change is here to stay.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Davis, William B.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Paul, Jean

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Petworth, John

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy