Motivational Quotes

Change

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ward, William A.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

George, David Lloyd

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Lynn Hall

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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?

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dewar, Jeff

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Confucius

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Andy Warhol

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel