Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dean, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Change

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Confucius

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Klee, Paul

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hooker, Richard

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Ruskin, John

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

Andy Warhol

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates