Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

Petworth, John

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bible

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

27.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Porter, Irene

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

44.

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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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