Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

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

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Socrates

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Buffett, Warren

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Klee, Paul

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

12.

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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Constant change is here to stay.

19.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

21.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

24.

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

Waitley, Denis

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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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 is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon