Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Petworth, John

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

Socrates

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

Bacon, Francis

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Burke, Edmund

10.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

22.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Bible

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Confucius

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Virgil

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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?

39.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy