Motivational Quotes

Change

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

- Porter, Irene

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

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

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bailey, Pearl

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

14.

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

15.

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

17.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Heraclitus

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

28.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

30.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Herford, Oliver

40.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

45.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les