Motivational Quotes

Change

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Draper, John W.

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

Lynn Hall

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

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.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

A Course In Miracles

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tracy, Brian

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Spander, Art

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Confucius

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Davis, William B.

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.