Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Eliot, George

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

Felltham, Owen

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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