Motivational Quotes

Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Waitley, Denis

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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Brown, Les

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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

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

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Porter, Irene

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Eliot, George

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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