Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

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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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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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

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

19.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Felltham, Owen

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Dewar, Jeff

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Paul, Jean

40.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

41.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Udall, Mo

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