Motivational Quotes

Change

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

- Braude, Jacob M.

Best Quotes about Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Mohammed

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Spander, Art

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

Bailey, Pearl

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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 can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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 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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Petworth, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma