Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bailey, Pearl

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Bacon, Francis

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Davis, William B.

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon