Motivational Quotes

Change

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

- Depree, Max

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.

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Petworth, John

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Socrates

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

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

Rogers, Will

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Burke, Edmund

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Heraclitus

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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 only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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 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

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Bailey, Pearl

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Shelton, Richard

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.