Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tilden, Bill

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Petworth, John

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carol Burnett