Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Sinetar, Marsha

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Murdock, Mike

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

10.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

11.

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

Mohammed

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

14.

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

Tracy, Brian

15.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

19.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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

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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

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

24.

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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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

27.

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

29.

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

Eliot, George

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

31.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

37.

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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

40.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

45.

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

Shelton, Richard

46.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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