Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Naisbitt, John

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Lynn Hall

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Spander, Art

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Menander of Athens