Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

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

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

George, David Lloyd

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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 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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Gerhart, Susan

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Depree, Max

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Petworth, John

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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