Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Carol Burnett

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Klee, Paul

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

Andy Warhol

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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