Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Lynn Hall

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German