Motivational Quotes

Change

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

- Mcgovern, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

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

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bailey, Pearl

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Davis, William B.

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

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

Virgil

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Porter, Irene

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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