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

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Draper, John W.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Davis, William B.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Petworth, John

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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

43.

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