Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryant, William C.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

10.

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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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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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.

13.

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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

17.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

23.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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.

31.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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

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

Andy Warhol

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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