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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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.

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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.

10.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Nelson Mandela

18.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Eliot, George

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

24.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

25.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

26.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

28.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Murdock, Mike

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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