Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

10.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Spander, Art

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

Almanac, Mary S.

14.

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

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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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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

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

Harrison Ford

18.

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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Felltham, Owen

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

39.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.