Motivational Quotes

Change

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

- Huxley, Elspeth

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

A Course In Miracles

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bailey, Pearl

11.

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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

George, David Lloyd

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Rogers, Will

18.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

19.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Petworth, John

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von