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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Andy Warhol

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Herford, Oliver

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Ramsay Clark

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Robbins, Anthony

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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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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