Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Mcgovern, William

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

21.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

22.

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

Menander of Athens

23.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

25.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Depree, Max

28.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

34.

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.

35.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Christina Baldwin

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Davis, William B.

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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