Motivational Quotes

Change

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Rohn, Jim

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Udall, Mo

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Virgil

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

Andy Warhol

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Depree, Max

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

Davis, William B.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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