Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Riley, Pat

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

Confucius

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

10.

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

11.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ruskin, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shelton, Richard

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Heraclitus

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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