Motivational Quotes

Change

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Best Quotes about Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Mohammed

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

Carol Burnett

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

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

11.

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

Christina Baldwin

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Harrison Ford

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

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Andy Warhol

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.