Motivational Quotes

Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bryant, William C.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Carol Burnett

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Bailey, Pearl

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

14.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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

26.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Heraclitus

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Shelton, Richard

31.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

40.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Franklin, Benjamin