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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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?

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Ward, William A.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Heraclitus

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Proust, Marcel

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Paul, Jean

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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.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Felltham, Owen

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Depree, Max