Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Lynn Hall

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Angelou, Maya

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Lee, Bruce

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Virgil

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides