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

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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?

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Bible

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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 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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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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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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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel