Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lynn Hall

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Porter, Irene

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

Andy Warhol

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Udall, Mo

20.

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

21.

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

Carol Burnett

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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 problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

33.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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 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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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