Motivational Quotes

Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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?

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lynn Hall

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.