Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Menander of Athens

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ward, William A.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Petworth, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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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 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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.