Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Heraclitus

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

10.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

11.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Petworth, John

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Carol Burnett

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

Burke, Edmund

20.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

25.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Butterworth, Eric

27.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

28.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

31.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

45.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

46.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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