Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Virgil

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Walesa, Lech

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Shaw, P.K.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Spander, Art

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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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