Motivational Quotes

Change

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Andy Warhol

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.

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

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Bryant, William C.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Harrison Ford

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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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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Angelou, Maya

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

35.

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

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von