Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Harrison Ford

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Watts, Alan W.

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 are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

11.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

28.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

32.

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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

36.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

37.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James