Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Davis, William B.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Depree, Max

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

Ward, William A.

37.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Draper, John W.

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelton, Richard

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von