Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Waitley, Denis

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Carol Burnett

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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.

12.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

13.

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.

14.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

16.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

20.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

21.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

22.

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

Bennett, Arnold

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

25.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

30.

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

Burke, Edmund

31.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

34.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

35.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

38.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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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

41.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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

45.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

46.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

50.

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