Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Carol Burnett

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Petworth, John

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Hooker, Richard

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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