Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

10.

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.

11.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

14.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

18.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Real Live Preacher

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

28.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

30.

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.

31.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

43.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

49.

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius