Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Lee, Bruce

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bible

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Churchill, Winston

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Heraclitus

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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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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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.