Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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.

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

Eliot, George

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

11.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

Heraclitus

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

Depree, Max

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

25.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Confucius

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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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

32.

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

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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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.