Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Harrison Ford

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Porter, Irene

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Paul, Jean

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.