Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Churchill, Winston

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Petworth, John

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bible

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Heraclitus

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

Davis, William B.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Harrison Ford

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

Christina Baldwin

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Menander of Athens

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan