Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Tracy, Brian

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Real Live Preacher

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Petworth, John

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heraclitus

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Mohammed

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Davis, William B.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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.