Motivational Quotes

Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Shelton, Richard

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Virgil

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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 the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Bible

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von