Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Heraclitus

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Waitley, Denis

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

10.

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

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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

17.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Petworth, John

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Spander, Art

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

Socrates

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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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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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Branden, Nathaniel