Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Socrates

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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