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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Spander, Art

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Virgil

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

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Proust, Marcel

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Paul, Jean

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Constant change is here to stay.

28.

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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Carol Burnett

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Depree, Max

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

Walesa, Lech

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.