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

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.

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

Rogers, Will

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

A Course In Miracles

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Burke, Edmund

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Heraclitus

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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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 woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Davis, William B.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Menander of Athens

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Petworth, John

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

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

Andy Warhol

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.