Motivational Quotes

Change

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Udall, Mo

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

Lee, Bruce

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Spander, Art

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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Ruskin, John

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Paul, Jean

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Riley, Pat