Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

A Course In Miracles

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bailey, Pearl

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Heraclitus

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Petworth, John

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Udall, Mo

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

Davis, William B.

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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

31.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George