Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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 universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mohammed

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Herford, Oliver

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Waitley, Denis

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis