Motivational Quotes

Change

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Buffett, Warren

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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

Rogers, Will

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

22.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Depree, Max

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood