Motivational Quotes

Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

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.

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

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Paul, Jean

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Bennett, Arnold

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Hooker, Richard

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Dante Alighieri

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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