Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Virgil

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

16.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

17.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

18.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

19.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

20.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

21.

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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

24.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

25.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

27.

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

Heraclitus

28.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

29.

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

30.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Angelou, Maya

36.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Depree, Max

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

39.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Sinetar, Marsha

42.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

45.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

49.

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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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