Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Tilden, Bill

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Heraclitus

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Bailey, Pearl

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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