Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

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

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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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.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Confucius

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.