Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Shelton, Richard

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Hooker, Richard

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lynn Hall

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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?

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Heraclitus

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

Virgil

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

Murdock, Mike

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Felltham, Owen

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Depree, Max

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.