Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Waitley, Denis

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Murdock, Mike

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Felltham, Owen

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Angelou, Maya

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Waitley, Denis

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Burke, Edmund

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Bryant, William C.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Petworth, John

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

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.