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

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.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Butterworth, Eric

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Spander, Art

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Petworth, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Lynn Hall

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

Burke, Edmund

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce