Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

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

Petworth, John

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Real Live Preacher

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Davis, William B.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Draper, John W.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Spander, Art

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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

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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 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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Murdock, Mike

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew