Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Franklin, Benjamin

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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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.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

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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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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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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

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe