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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Waitley, Denis

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

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

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Felltham, Owen

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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.