Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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.

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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.

10.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

11.

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Depree, Max

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bible

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Petworth, John

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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.

36.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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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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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.