Motivational Quotes

Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

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

2.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

3.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

4.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

5.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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

7.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

10.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Nelson Mandela

13.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

14.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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

16.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

17.

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

Proust, Marcel

18.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

19.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

20.

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

21.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

22.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

23.

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

Herford, Oliver

24.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

27.

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

Mcgovern, William

28.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

38.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

39.

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

Lee, Bruce

40.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

41.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.