Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Depree, Max

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

Bryant, William C.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Andy Warhol

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Susan Rice

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Petworth, John

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David