Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Andy Warhol

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?

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

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Carol Burnett

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

A Course In Miracles

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin