Motivational Quotes

Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dewar, Jeff

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Brown, Les

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

10.

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

Mcgovern, William

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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

18.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

24.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

25.

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

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

Menander of Athens

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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

28.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

29.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Carol Burnett

31.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kettering, Charles F.