Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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.

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

Draper, John W.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

10.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Hooker, Richard

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles