Motivational Quotes

Change

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Paul, Jean

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

Walesa, Lech

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Depree, Max

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Udall, Mo

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

Brown, Les

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.