Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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

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.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

10.

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

11.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Dante Alighieri

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Ruskin, John

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Davis, William B.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Depree, Max

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Constant change is here to stay.

25.

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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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

George, David Lloyd

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.