Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

13.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Ruskin, John

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Murdock, Mike

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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