Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Carol Burnett

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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

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

Herford, Oliver

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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

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

Murdock, Mike

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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