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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

18.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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