Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Mohammed

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Davis, William B.

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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 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

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Virgil

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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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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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

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn