Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Butterworth, Eric

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Virgil

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

Spander, Art

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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

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

Carol Burnett

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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.

28.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lynn Hall

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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

39.

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

Confucius

40.

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

Socrates

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ruskin, John

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic