Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Carol Burnett

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Virgil

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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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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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.

31.

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

Andy Warhol

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Lynn Hall

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne