Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Almanac, Mary S.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Depree, Max

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Virgil

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

Harrison Ford

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

Confucius

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Rohn, Jim

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