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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

A Course In Miracles

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Paul, Jean

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

Kempis, Thomas

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Brown, Les

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon