Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Carol Burnett

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

Menander of Athens

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Depree, Max

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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

11.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tilden, Bill

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Heraclitus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change alone is unchanging.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Bible

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Hooker, Richard

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan