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

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

Andy Warhol

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

Paul, Jean

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Watts, Alan W.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Ruskin, John

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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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

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les