Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Susan Rice

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

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Socrates

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

12.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Spander, Art

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Tilden, Bill

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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In pain is a new time born.