Motivational Quotes

Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

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

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

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

Carol Burnett

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

11.

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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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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 begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Andy Warhol

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Draper, John W.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

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