Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Change

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bennett, Arnold

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Proust, Marcel

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

11.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

12.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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 powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Heraclitus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Ruskin, John

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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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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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 is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Depree, Max

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Davis, William B.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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