Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Petworth, John

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Harrison Ford

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

Mcgovern, William

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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