Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Petworth, John

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Churchill, Winston

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Carol Burnett

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Riley, Pat

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser