Motivational Quotes

Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proust, Marcel

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Brown, Les

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Davis, William B.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Constant change is here to stay.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.