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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Constant change is here to stay.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Depree, Max

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

13.

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?

14.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

15.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Susan Rice

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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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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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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Tracy, Brian

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Carol Burnett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Franklin, Benjamin