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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Heraclitus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Depree, Max

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Carol Burnett

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Davis, William B.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Porter, Irene

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Franklin, Benjamin