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

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.

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

Riley, Pat

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Petworth, John

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Virgil

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.