Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Proust, Marcel

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Klee, Paul

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Spander, Art

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Davis, William B.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Constant change is here to stay.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Brown, Les

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

Harrison Ford

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo