Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Klee, Paul

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Spander, Art

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold