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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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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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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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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Eliot, George

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Riley, Pat