Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Nelson Mandela

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Christina Baldwin

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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert 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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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.

34.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von