Motivational Quotes

Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mcgovern, William

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Butterworth, Eric

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Real Live Preacher

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

10.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

11.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

Carol Burnett

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

20.

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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

42.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von