Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Porter, Irene

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Virgil

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Kempis, Thomas

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

12.

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

Petworth, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Heraclitus

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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?

17.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

23.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Herford, Oliver

25.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

41.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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.