Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Rogers, Will

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.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Spander, Art

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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 entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Petworth, John

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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