Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butterworth, Eric

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Draper, John W.

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

11.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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.

21.

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

Rogers, Will

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

27.

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

Angelou, Maya

28.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Sinetar, Marsha

30.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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.

41.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Maslow, Abraham H.