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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Carol Burnett

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Nelson Mandela

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

27.

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bible

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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.