Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Harrison Ford

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Rohn, Jim

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Porter, Irene

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les