Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Depree, Max

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

Klee, Paul

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Confucius

10.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Watts, Alan W.

12.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eliot, George

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

18.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Hooker, Richard

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

26.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

30.

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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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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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

33.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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.

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.