Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

13.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

20.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

21.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

22.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

24.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

25.

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

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

30.

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

Shelton, Richard

31.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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 longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

41.

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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

45.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

46.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

47.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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