Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Klee, Paul

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

Heraclitus

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

29.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

31.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Andy Warhol

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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 is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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?