Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Jackson, Jesse

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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 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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Heraclitus

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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 improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

28.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Eliot, George

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ruskin, John

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne