Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carol Burnett

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Lynn Hall

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

10.

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

11.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

18.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

19.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Klee, Paul

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Murdock, Mike

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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.

32.

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

33.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proust, Marcel

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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, 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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.