Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Murdock, Mike

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Confucius

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Christina Baldwin

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Carol Burnett

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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

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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

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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 most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Shelton, Richard