Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Spander, Art

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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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

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

22.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

23.

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

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

33.

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

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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Hooker, Richard

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les