Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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

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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

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

Heraclitus

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

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

Andy Warhol

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Gerhart, Susan