Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

A Course In Miracles

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Lynn Hall

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Carol Burnett

11.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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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

18.

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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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.

34.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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?

38.

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

Depree, Max

39.

Constant change is here to stay.

40.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.