Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bailey, Pearl

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Constant change is here to stay.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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

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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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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas