Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

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

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Andy Warhol

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Waitley, Denis

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Rogers, Will

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virgil

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis