Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

10.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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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

15.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

18.

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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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Virgil

28.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

29.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

30.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

32.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

36.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

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

Brown, Les

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

44.

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

45.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.