Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Carol Burnett

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

Heraclitus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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