Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Felltham, Owen

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Virgil

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Bible

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

A Course In Miracles