Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

12.

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

Herford, Oliver

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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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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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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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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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Brown, Les