Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Real Live Preacher

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rohn, Jim

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Petworth, John

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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 cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Constant change is here to stay.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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.