Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Buffett, Warren

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.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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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

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

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

Brown, Les

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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.