Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

10.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

11.

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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sinetar, Marsha

25.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Depree, Max

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Davis, William B.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.