Motivational Quotes

Change

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

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

Churchill, Winston

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ramsay Clark

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Murdock, Mike

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carol Burnett

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa