Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Change

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Watts, Alan W.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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

Virgil

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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 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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone 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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.