Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Depree, Max

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Almanac, Mary S.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Shelton, Richard

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Churchill, Winston

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Petworth, John

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

28.

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

29.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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

Confucius

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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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