Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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.

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Tracy, Brian

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bailey, Pearl

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Ruskin, John

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Bellin, Gita