Motivational Quotes

Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Virgil

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

Almanac, Mary S.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bible

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Paul, Jean

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

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Bailey, Pearl

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Spander, Art

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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