Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Heraclitus

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

Lynn Hall

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Petworth, John

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Shelton, Richard

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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