Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lynn Hall

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

Carol Burnett

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

Virgil

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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?

38.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Mcgovern, William

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova