Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Petworth, John

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.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

10.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Brown, Les

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

17.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

18.

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

Davis, William B.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

20.

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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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 word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Spander, Art

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad