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

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

Brown, Les

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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.

11.

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?

12.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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.

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

Confucius

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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

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

Virgil

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Petworth, John

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Bellin, Gita