Motivational Quotes

Change

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

- Zambucka, Kirsten

Best Quotes about Change

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

Brown, Les

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Davis, William B.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Depree, Max

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Tracy, Brian

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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