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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Udall, Mo

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Virgil

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Rogers, Will

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

Kempis, Thomas

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Depree, Max

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American