Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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

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

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Virgil

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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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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 is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Bible

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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.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas