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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Heraclitus

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shelton, Richard

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Heraclitus

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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 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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Murdock, Mike

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.