Motivational Quotes

Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Menander of Athens

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Davis, William B.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

21.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Heraclitus

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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