Motivational Quotes

Change

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Tracy, Brian

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Lynn Hall

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Harrison Ford

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

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh