Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Murdock, Mike

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hooker, Richard

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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.

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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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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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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

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.