Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carol Burnett

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

Brown, Les

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

Rogers, Will

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

Petworth, John

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Christina Baldwin

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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.

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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 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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

35.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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