Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Murdock, Mike

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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.

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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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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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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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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

43.

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

Ruskin, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.