Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Harrison Ford

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lynn Hall

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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 has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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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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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 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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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 don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac