Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Shaw, P.K.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Mohammed

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Felltham, Owen

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert