Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Constant change is here to stay.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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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

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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 more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, William B.

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

Carol Burnett

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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