Motivational Quotes

Change

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

- Douglas, William O.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Eliot, George

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

Heraclitus

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Petworth, John

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Klee, Paul

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Virgil

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.