Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Menander of Athens

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Bible

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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 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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Tracy, Brian

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Lynn Hall

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Carol Burnett

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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