Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

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

Susan Rice

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

Butterworth, Eric

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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 a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.