Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Mohammed

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Pope, Alexander

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Ruskin, John

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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