Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Virgil

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Proust, Marcel

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

A Course In Miracles

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Andy Warhol

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.