Motivational Quotes

Change

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Confucius

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Udall, Mo

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Andy Warhol

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Menander of Athens

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Davis, William B.

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

Petworth, John