Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Davis, William B.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Petworth, John

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

14.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

15.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

18.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

19.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

20.

Constant change is here to stay.

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

23.

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

Christina Baldwin

24.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

25.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

26.

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

Real Live Preacher

27.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

28.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

29.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

30.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

31.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

32.

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

33.

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

Carol Burnett

34.

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

Eliot, George

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

36.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

39.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Murdock, Mike

41.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

42.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

45.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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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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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