Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

A Course In Miracles

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Real Live Preacher

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

10.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

11.

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

Mohammed

12.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Shelton, Richard

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

16.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

25.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

41.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les