Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Petworth, John

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

Bellin, Gita

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Tilden, Bill

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Depree, Max

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau