Motivational Quotes

Change

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Drucker, Peter F.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lynn Hall

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Andy Warhol

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

10.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Susan Rice

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Petworth, John

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

Depree, Max

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tilden, Bill

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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