Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

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

Andy Warhol

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

George, David Lloyd

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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.

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Spander, Art

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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.