Motivational Quotes

Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

- Gilbertson, Joan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Tilden, Bill

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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 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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Mcgovern, William

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Davis, William B.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Spander, Art

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Paul, Jean

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Christina Baldwin

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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