Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Rohn, Jim

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Lynn Hall

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Davis, William B.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh