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

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Bailey, Pearl

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Confucius

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Petworth, John

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tracy, Brian

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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Davis, William B.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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