Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Lynn Hall

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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 wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Constant change is here to stay.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carol Burnett

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Porter, Irene

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Andy Warhol

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas