Motivational Quotes

Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bennett, Arnold

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Herford, Oliver

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Porter, Irene

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Udall, Mo

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Churchill, Winston

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Heraclitus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh