Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Walesa, Lech

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Constant change is here to stay.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma