Motivational Quotes

Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Bacon, Francis

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Waitley, Denis

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Spander, Art

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Petworth, John

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

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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