Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ward, William A.

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

Waitley, Denis

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Mcgovern, William

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Proust, Marcel

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Davis, William B.

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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