Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

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

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

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

Ramsay Clark

10.

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 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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Butterworth, Eric

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Porter, Irene

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Tracy, Brian

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von