Motivational Quotes

Change

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Walesa, Lech

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Felltham, Owen

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ramsay Clark

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Waitley, Denis

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Hooker, Richard

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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