Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Einstein, Albert

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

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

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andy Warhol

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

22.

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

Ward, William A.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

34.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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

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

Depree, Max

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

Ruskin, John

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.