Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

12.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

15.

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

17.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

18.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

21.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

25.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Spander, Art

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

Eliot, George

29.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

30.

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

31.

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

Confucius

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean