Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Walesa, Lech

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

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

Draper, John W.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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.

11.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

12.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

13.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Virgil

15.

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

17.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

18.

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

Carol Burnett

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

Depree, Max

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

27.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

40.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

41.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

42.

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

Ramsay Clark

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Everything changes but change.