Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Carol Burnett

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Murdock, Mike

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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 human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Tilden, Bill

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Paul, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Confucius

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya