Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Buffett, Warren

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

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

Paul, Jean

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Porter, Irene

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Virgil

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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

33.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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