Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

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.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

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

Shelton, Richard

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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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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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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 don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson