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

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

Petworth, John

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Klee, Paul

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Susan Rice

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Brown, Les

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Porter, Irene

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Murdock, Mike

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon