Motivational Quotes

Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Mohammed

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Gilcrest, Peter

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Draper, John W.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

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

Susan Rice

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Shelton, Richard

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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?

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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.

47.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Constant change is here to stay.

49.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

50.

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