Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

11.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

12.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Eliot, George

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

George, David Lloyd

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

25.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Spander, Art

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Burke, Edmund

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Heraclitus

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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