Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

The only people who like change are wet babies.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Naisbitt, John

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

15.

Constant change is here to stay.

16.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, 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

18.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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

24.

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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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

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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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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

34.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Murdock, Mike

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Waitley, Denis