Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

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.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Confucius

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Davis, William B.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Susan Rice

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

Rohn, Jim

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.