Motivational Quotes

Change

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Dean, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Virgil

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Harrison Ford

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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?

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Porter, Irene

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

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

Petworth, John

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bennett, Arnold

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Confucius

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.