Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

10.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

11.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Bible

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

18.

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

19.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

22.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

24.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

28.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

34.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

40.

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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

44.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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