Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Socrates

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Ruskin, John

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Herford, Oliver

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Andy Warhol

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Virgil

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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.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Carol Burnett

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

George, David Lloyd

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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