Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Mohammed

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

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

11.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

15.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

16.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

17.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

20.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

21.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Paul, Jean

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

Heraclitus

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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

25.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

27.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

28.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

29.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

31.

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

Lee, Bruce

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Paz, Octavio

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James