Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Change

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.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Sontag, Susan

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Shelton, Richard

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Bennett, Arnold

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