Motivational Quotes

Change

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

A Course In Miracles

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Buffett, Warren

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Felltham, Owen

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

13.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Klee, Paul

19.

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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Davis, William B.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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 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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.