Motivational Quotes

Change

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Waitley, Denis

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

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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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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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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Andy Warhol

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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