Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Lynn Hall

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Bible

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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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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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Andy Warhol

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gerhart, Susan

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Confucius

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Ramsay Clark

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen