Motivational Quotes

Change

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Spander, Art

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

Sinetar, Marsha

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hooker, Richard

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Virgil

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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

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

Heraclitus

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

Petworth, John

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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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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.