Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Waitley, Denis

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

10.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Shaw, P.K.

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Felltham, Owen

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

26.

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

27.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

28.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

33.

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?

34.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tracy, Brian

36.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

A Course In Miracles

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.