Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Andy Warhol

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Virgil

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Porter, Irene

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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Waitley, Denis

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Carol Burnett

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.