Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lynn Hall

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

10.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

15.

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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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

23.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bellin, Gita

29.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

42.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Eliot, George

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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