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

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

Riley, Pat

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Brown, Les

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Heraclitus

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Spander, Art

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Susan Rice

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Christina Baldwin

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Herford, Oliver

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius