Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hooker, Richard

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Confucius

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.