Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Spander, Art

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Waitley, Denis

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl