Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Real Live Preacher

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

10.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Petworth, John

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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?

33.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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