Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Proust, Marcel

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Real Live Preacher

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

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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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Spander, Art

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan