Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Klee, Paul

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Burke, Edmund

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Rogers, Will

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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.

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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.

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius