Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Petworth, John

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Depree, Max

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

Riley, Pat

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Davis, William B.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Branden, Nathaniel