Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schoeder, Caroline

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dean, Jimmy

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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?

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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 are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Ruskin, John

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Depree, Max

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

Petworth, John

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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