Motivational Quotes

Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carol Burnett

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

George, David Lloyd

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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

11.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

12.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.