Motivational Quotes

Change

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Best Quotes about Change

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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bellin, Gita

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcgovern, William

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

10.

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

Shelton, Richard

11.

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.

12.

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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

20.

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

Ward, William A.

21.

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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

25.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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

27.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

28.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Udall, Mo

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

33.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Herford, Oliver

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

41.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

42.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.