Motivational Quotes

Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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

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

Davis, William B.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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

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

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

Spander, Art

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

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