Motivational Quotes

Change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

- Sheehy, Gail

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryant, William C.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Depree, Max

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

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

25.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

29.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Heraclitus

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

32.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Andy Warhol

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Bennett, Arnold