Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

10.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

11.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

15.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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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.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Udall, Mo

28.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Carol Burnett

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

43.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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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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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

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