Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Ruskin, John

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

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peters, Thomas J.

10.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

13.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

23.

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

Tracy, Brian

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

27.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

28.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

29.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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

31.

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

Petworth, John

32.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

33.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

35.

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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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 begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ward, William A.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston