Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Waitley, Denis

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Confucius

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Felltham, Owen

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

33.

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Andy Warhol

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

Davis, William B.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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?

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

48.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha