Motivational Quotes

Change

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

Herford, Oliver

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Constant change is here to stay.

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Petworth, John

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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