Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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

27.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

31.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

32.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

33.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Spander, Art

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

36.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Heraclitus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe