Motivational Quotes

Change

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

- Udall, Mo

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Naisbitt, John

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Carol Burnett

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Depree, Max

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Petworth, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Constant change is here to stay.

29.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Spander, Art

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Confucius

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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