Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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 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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Lynn Hall

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

Draper, John W.

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Menander of Athens

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Shaw, P.K.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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?

48.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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