Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Udall, Mo

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Porter, Irene

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Mohammed

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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