Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

Robbins, Anthony

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Mohammed

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Depree, Max

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

Felltham, Owen

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Carol Burnett

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Virgil

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin