Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Paul, Jean

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Tracy, Brian

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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