Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Lee, Bruce

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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

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

Confucius

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar