Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Davis, William B.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

10.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

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

Draper, John W.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

18.

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

Herford, Oliver

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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

22.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

31.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

32.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

33.

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

Rogers, Will

34.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

36.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

37.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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

45.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

46.

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

Carol Burnett

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