Motivational Quotes

Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

20.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

22.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Carol Burnett

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Tracy, Brian

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

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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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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

42.

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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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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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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser