Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

10.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

11.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Bailey, Pearl

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

18.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Rogers, Will

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

23.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

24.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

25.

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.

26.

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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

28.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

29.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

31.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

40.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Brown, Les

42.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean