Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

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

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

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

Menander of Athens

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Klee, Paul

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

17.

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

Andy Warhol

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

19.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Ward, William A.

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

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Depree, Max

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Ramsay Clark