Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Petworth, John

10.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

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.

19.

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

Bible

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Rogers, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bacon, Francis

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

George, David Lloyd

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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?

47.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

48.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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