Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bailey, Pearl

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.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Brown, Les

11.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

Carol Burnett

14.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

15.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

19.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Proust, Marcel

27.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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.

33.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

34.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Paul, Jean

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

42.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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

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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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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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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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