Motivational Quotes

Change

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Schoeder, Caroline

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Lynn Hall

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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 great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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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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

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle