Motivational Quotes

Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Shelton, Richard

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Proust, Marcel

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Depree, Max

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Angelou, Maya

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Ramsay Clark

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony