Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Butterworth, Eric

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Spander, Art

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

10.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Andy Warhol

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

43.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.