Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

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

Spander, Art

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Butterworth, Eric

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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?

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Andy Warhol

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

Udall, Mo

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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