Motivational Quotes

Change

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Change

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

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Dean, Jimmy

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Davis, William B.

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

Carol Burnett

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Herford, Oliver

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.