Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Dewar, Jeff

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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.

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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Depree, Max

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Glasgow, Ellen

24.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

28.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Lynn Hall

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Jackson, Jesse

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