Motivational Quotes

Change

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ruskin, John

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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 way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

34.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Hooker, Richard

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle