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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bryant, William C.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Felltham, Owen

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Churchill, Winston

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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?

21.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela