Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Brown, Les

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Depree, Max

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Andy Warhol

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Carol Burnett

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Harrison Ford

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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.