Motivational Quotes

Change

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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

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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 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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Tilden, Bill

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Confucius

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

Churchill, Winston

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy