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

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.

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

10.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

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

Heraclitus

12.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

13.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

14.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

25.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

27.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

29.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

30.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

31.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

32.

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

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

Constant change is here to stay.

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

37.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

38.

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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

40.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

Shaw, P.K.

42.

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

Petworth, John

43.

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

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Felltham, Owen

49.

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

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