Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Waitley, Denis

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Depree, Max

11.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Almanac, Mary S.

13.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Draper, John W.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Udall, Mo

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, 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.

49.

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

Petworth, John

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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