Motivational Quotes

Change

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Tracy, Brian

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Depree, Max

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Petworth, John

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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

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Paul, Jean

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul