Motivational Quotes

Change

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Carol Burnett

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James