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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Ruskin, John

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Rogers, Will

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Petworth, John

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.