Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brown, Les

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Harrison Ford

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

11.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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.

14.

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

Klee, Paul

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bailey, Pearl

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

25.

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

Tilden, Bill

26.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

28.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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.

32.

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

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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 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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bellin, Gita

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.