Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Tracy, Brian

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

10.

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

11.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

16.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Dewar, Jeff

19.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Brown, Les

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Felltham, Owen

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Bellin, Gita

46.

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

Petworth, John

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

Spander, Art

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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 means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul