Motivational Quotes

Change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Spencer, Herbert

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

Carol Burnett

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

40.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.