Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tilden, Bill

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Carol Burnett

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

43.

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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Things do not change; we change.