Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

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?

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Carol Burnett

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Porter, Irene

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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 cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Paul, Jean