Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Jackson, Jesse

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Heraclitus

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

Real Live Preacher

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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