Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Spander, Art

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Eliot, George

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

Paul, Jean

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Lynn Hall

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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