Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Paul, Jean

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

10.

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

11.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

12.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Petworth, John

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Tilden, Bill

27.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herford, Oliver

30.

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

Brown, Les

32.

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

Susan Rice

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

Confucius

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

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Paz, Octavio