Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Harrison Ford

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

Petworth, John

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Depree, Max

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Churchill, Winston

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

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

Mohammed

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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