Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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.

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

Susan Rice

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Watts, Alan W.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Virgil

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Klee, Paul

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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

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tilden, Bill

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William