Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bible

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Andy Warhol

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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 do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.