Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Andy Warhol

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Porter, Irene

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Petworth, John

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Paul, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Christina Baldwin

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert