Motivational Quotes

Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

- 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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

10.

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

Dean, Jimmy

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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?

13.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

14.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lynn Hall

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dewar, Jeff

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

George, David Lloyd

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

31.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Herford, Oliver

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Andy Warhol