Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

10.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Depree, Max

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Ramsay Clark

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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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?

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

41.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Heraclitus

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

Rogers, Will

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carol Burnett

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

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