Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Paz, Octavio

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Ruskin, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Kempis, Thomas

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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.

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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

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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.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy