Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

George, David Lloyd

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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

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

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Eliot, George

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Angelou, Maya

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Carol Burnett

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.