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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

10.

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

Sontag, Susan

11.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Brown, Les

23.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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

25.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Buscaglia, Leo

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Virgil

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

39.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

40.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Mohammed

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

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von