Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Buffett, Warren

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Felltham, Owen

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

10.

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

11.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

17.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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

19.

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

Udall, Mo

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Andy Warhol

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

Nelson Mandela

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser