Motivational Quotes

Change

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Almanac, Mary S.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Andy Warhol

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Susan Rice

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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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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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

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

Davis, William B.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

33.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Christina Baldwin

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell