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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Waitley, Denis

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Herford, Oliver

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Ruskin, John

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pope, Alexander

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Hooker, Richard

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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 not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

35.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Waitley, Denis

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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

39.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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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

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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