Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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

24.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Davis, William B.

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Harrison Ford

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob