Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Lynn Hall

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Tracy, Brian

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Porter, Irene

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Susan Rice

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Bennett, Arnold

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Andy Warhol

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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