Motivational Quotes

Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Susan Rice

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Petworth, John

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Felltham, Owen

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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