Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Heraclitus

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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?

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

Paul, Jean

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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.