Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Nelson Mandela

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

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Lynn Hall

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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'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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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