Motivational Quotes

Change

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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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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Confucius

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Robbins, Anthony

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Ramsay Clark

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul, Jean

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

Paz, Octavio

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Depree, Max

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

Angelou, Maya