Motivational Quotes

Change

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Change

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Petworth, John

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Rohn, Jim

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.