Motivational Quotes

Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

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

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

Mcgovern, William

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Klee, Paul

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Andy Warhol

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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 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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di