Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Confucius

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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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 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 step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

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

Porter, Irene

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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.