Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

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

Dean, Jimmy

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

12.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Heraclitus

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Mohammed

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

Virgil

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

35.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Ruskin, John

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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.