Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rohn, Jim

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Waitley, Denis

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Petworth, John

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Real Live Preacher

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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.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle