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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Harrison Ford

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

Dean, Jimmy

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Freeman, James Dillet

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Herford, Oliver

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Davis, William B.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Tracy, Brian

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Ruskin, John

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Proust, Marcel

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.