Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Menander of Athens

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bennett, Arnold

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Davis, William B.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Petworth, John

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

Susan Rice

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Shelton, Richard

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.