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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Gerhart, Susan

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Proust, Marcel

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

10.

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

Andy Warhol

11.

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

12.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Felltham, Owen

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

16.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

31.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Spander, Art

40.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German