Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

10.

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

Tilden, Bill

11.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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.

13.

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Klee, Paul

16.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Paul, Jean

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Mcgovern, William

24.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

26.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

27.

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

Lee, Bruce

28.

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

Heraclitus

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

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

Shelton, Richard

44.

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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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.