Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Harrison Ford

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Carol Burnett

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

Depree, Max

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

34.

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

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Murdock, Mike

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Spander, Art

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Drucker, Peter F.