Motivational Quotes

Change

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

- Schoeder, Caroline

Best Quotes about Change

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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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 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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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 only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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 no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Proust, Marcel

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha