Motivational Quotes

Change

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Christina Baldwin

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

A Course In Miracles

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

31.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Lynn Hall

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Heraclitus

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Almanac, Mary S.

43.

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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 is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Confucius