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

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

10.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Waitley, Denis

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

18.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

19.

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

20.

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

Herford, Oliver

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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

22.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Confucius

24.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

26.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Petworth, John

28.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

32.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

33.

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

Spander, Art

34.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

35.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

36.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

37.

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

Angelou, Maya

38.

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

Mcgovern, William

39.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

40.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

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

George, David Lloyd

42.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Paul, Jean

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

48.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

49.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

50.

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