Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

13.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Heraclitus

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Draper, John W.

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Rogers, Will

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

Virgil

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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

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

49.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.