Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Porter, Irene

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

10.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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?

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

Eliot, George

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

21.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

26.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Angelou, Maya

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Brown, Les

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

44.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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