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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Brown, Les

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Lynn Hall

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Petworth, John

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

Andy Warhol

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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