Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Real Live Preacher

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Lynn Hall

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

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Angelou, Maya

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Andy Warhol

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

Davis, William B.

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

Waitley, Denis

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Carol Burnett

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Harrison Ford

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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