Motivational Quotes

Change

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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.

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

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Buffett, Warren

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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?

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Ward, William A.

29.

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

Brown, Les

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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

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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim