Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

32.

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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Paul, Jean

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Bible

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.