Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bellin, Gita

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Petworth, John

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Branden, Nathaniel

10.

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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

15.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Heraclitus

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Herford, Oliver

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

George, David Lloyd

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

50.

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

Shelton, Richard