Motivational Quotes

Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Carol Burnett

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.

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

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.

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

Eliot, George

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Petworth, John

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Bible

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Confucius

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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

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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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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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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Heraclitus

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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

Davis, William B.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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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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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Brown, Les